African American Civil Rights Movement

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

1946-1987: Post-World War II and the Era of Civil Rights. The Encyclopedia of Alabama is a service of Auburn University, The University of Alabama, and Alabama State Dept. of Education.

This Library of Congress exhibition documents events during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.

A collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960.

This site uses videos, pictures and text to explore the Civil Rights Movement.

A National Register of Historic Places travel itinerary.

An unprecedented collaboration bringing together the power of investigative reporting, narrative writing, documentary filmmaking and interactive multimedia production to reveal the long-neglected truth behind unsolved civil rights murders.

Recordings and photographs of speeches from prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.

More than 100 photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, and ephemera from a student who volunteer in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.

A survey of articles from the student newspaper addressing race relations at Hampden-Sydney College and in the surrounding community, giving a window into attitudes in the 1950s and ’60s.

Promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement by helping users discover primary sources and other educational materials from libraries, archives, museums, public broadcasters, and others on a national scale.